When my friend Alice called me very early one morning, it meant one thing: Bill was at it again.

Bill is Alice's husband and a devoted conspiracy theorist. He regularly spent hours looking for hidden patterns and concealed truths, and though Alice had learned to live with it, she sounded more worried than usual.

I rushed over to her place and asked what had happened.

"I guess Bill was up all night," she said. "He woke me up at dawn and I could tell he was in a frenzy. He said he'd discovered something that could change the world, but it was too dangerous to just tell me. I haven't seen him that manic since he discovered he could rearrange KFC's slogan to spell 'cooked rifling gin'. We haven't eaten there since..."

"So where is he now?" I prompted.

"He left, said he was going to the library to make sure. He said to be safe he had to 'disguise the numbers' and gave me this."

She produced a neatly written note:

1: The third of Attention, Infant!
2: The honest guy’s paper home.
3: The length of the first two Greek letters, in English.
4: Magic Brown Juice and many others.
5: Director with two AAs but without his cuppa squared.
6: Without leaping, split a revolution five ways then count rotations.
7: Exclusively from special ammo to everything’s answer.
8: Zombie-preventer’s headcount.
9: HITTING with no doubles or triples.
10: The originals (before the green mountains through the volcanoes).

"I know you're good at these things," she said, "maybe you can help me figure it out."

"Alright. But let's go find Bill. I'll read it carefully on the way."

We booked it to the local library, and to our surprise the woman sitting at the front desk stopped us and asked "Are you Alice? Your husband told me you might come—and that you'd be wearing your favorite camo jacket." She was, indeed. "He left this for you," the librarian continued, "but I have no idea what it means."

We looked at Bill's second note.

My quiet friends like 5, while my louder friends like 1.
If not 2, then there is no difference between paradise and a specific ghastly ruler.
But if 7, then you can try with 12.
And if not 8, then mixing a temper and cola is okay.
Those with a need for speed will seek 6.
If 3 is reversed, then I'll have to double combatants twice?
In all, I am 10. Find me and use me.

Eventually we were able to trace Bill's twisted logic and figure out what had sent a shock through him. We found him a few hours later, and tried to convince him that everything was fine. But Bill insisted it was plain to see that everything should change.

What was the message Bill "discovered"?

Is Bill right?

Hint

There are just two steps to this puzzle. One, figure out the numbers. Two, use the numbers.

Hints for as-of-yet unsolved numbers

4: Also: Doctor Diesel Mailman
8: I'm mixing temporally distant fictions
9: Darts were a good thought, but not the right game

Hint for second note

Turns out, no math was involved. It was more of a riddle.

Final hint(s)

Solving any of the lines of the second note is enough. Each line points to the same thing.

Also, I could've used the standard Alice and Bob for this question, but then thought I'd drop in one more hint instead.

If not 2, then there is no difference between paradise and a specific ghastly ruler.

Thanks to Scoranio.
If there is no right to bear arms, then there is no NRA
NIRVANA - IVAN = NRA (2nd Amendment)

But if 7, then you can try with 12.

If a civil case is launched it can be tried before a jury of peers (12 people) (Seventh Amendment)

And if not 8, then mixing a temper and cola is okay.

The eighth amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. If we didn't have it then Cadena Temporal would be legal. "mixing temper and cola" is a clue to take an anagram of "a temper and cola". (8th Amendment)

Those with a need for speed will seek 6.

The right to a speedy trial. (6th Amendment)

If 3 is reversed, then I'll have to double combatants twice?

Quartering of private soldiers is not allowed, so they be wholed again :) (1/4 * 2 * 2) (Third Amendment)

In all, I am 10. Find me and use me.

10 amendments

Using the numbers from the first Note as outline by feelinferrety take:

The word numbered from note 1 from the amendment number.

For example, the first note has 1:1, so we take the first word of the first amendment. Then comes 2:5, so we take the fifth word of the second amemdment, etc.

$\begingroup$This is very ingenious and must surely be right (though I don't think I believe your explanation for "if not 2..." or "if not 8..."). But how is it consistent with the "Final Hint" in the question?$\endgroup$
– Gareth McCaughan♦Jun 27 '16 at 14:58

$\begingroup$... Sorry, that's the wrong way to put it. I mean: How is the "Final Hint" consistent with this being the answer, which it surely is?$\endgroup$
– Gareth McCaughan♦Jun 27 '16 at 14:59

$\begingroup$@GarethMcCaughan Does it make more sense now? If not, I guess I don't understand your question.$\endgroup$
– LeppyR64Jun 27 '16 at 15:08

$\begingroup$Sorry, the main reason for my question is that I am an idiot. I was mixing up the two notes and therefore thought Dan was obviously wrong to say that solving any one line of the second note was enough.$\endgroup$
– Gareth McCaughan♦Jun 27 '16 at 15:16

$\begingroup$I still don't believe your explanations for "if not 2 ..." and "if not 8 ...", though: I see neither a paradise nor a specific ghastly ruler in the former, and unless I'm missing some reference (always possible!) the second sentence of the latter seems like you just made it up. Considering my idiocy as already demonstrated above, though, the most likely explanation in both cases is that I'm just being dim and missing the point.$\endgroup$
– Gareth McCaughan♦Jun 27 '16 at 15:19

adding 50 points for using all 7 letters in your rack, but the only ways I can think of that you'd use 7 letters to make a 7 letter word (normally you'd use 6 or fewer since you build off a letter or letters already on the board) is if you either were the first to place a word, in which case you get a double word score automatically, or if you extended a word that was already on the board while placing all 7 tiles, in which case you'd add the score of that word too.